Chicago [videorecording] / Film Preservation Associates, Inc. ; a Cecil B. DeMille Studio production ; directors, Frank Urson, Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited) ; screenwriter, Lenore J. Coffee.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: FA0017 | Flicker AlleySeries: Blackhawk Films collectionPublication details: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley, c2010.Edition: Deluxe edDescription: 2 videodiscs (ca. 213 min.) : sd., b&w and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ;19 cm.)ISBN:- 1893967514
- 9781893967519
- Photography, Peverell Marley; editor, Anne Bauchens.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Chicago | Available | 33111006600163 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in 1927. Phyllis Haver was ideally cast as gum-chewing dance-hall girl Roxie Hart, who shoots her lover full of holes and then is forgiven by her faithful -- if not entirely honest -- husband Amos (Victor Varconi). Put on trial for murder, Roxie comes to enjoy the publicity, and soon willingly becomes the darling of the media (it helps that she's convinced herself that no jury in their right mind will condemn a "celebrity"). Feeding upon this, Roxie's flamboyant defense attorney Flynn (Robert Edeson) likewise revels in the hoopla stirred up by enterprising reporter T. Roy Barnes. The only person who doesn't enjoy the spectacle is Amos Hart, who becomes so fed up that he tosses Roxie out of their house, finding comfort in the arms of housemaid Katie (Virginia Bradford), who has loved him all along. A cleaned-up but no less rowdy version of Chicago was filmed by William Wellman in 1943 under the title Roxie Hart; three decades later, the property was revived as a Broadway musical, which has flourished on the road-show circuit ever since. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the stage play by Maurine Watkins.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
Silent film with English intertitles and musical score.
disc 1. [Feature] (119 min.) -- disc 2. The golden twenties / produced by the March of Time ; producer, Richard de Rochemont ; writers, Frederick Lewis Allen, Samuel Wood Bryant (1950) (64 min.) ; The flapper story / producer/writer/director, Lauren Lazin (1985) (30 min.).
Photography, Peverell Marley; editor, Anne Bauchens.
Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford, Robert Edeson, Eugene Palette.
The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.
DVD, region 0, full screen; stereo.